Necktie-fastener.



PATENTED APR.- 7, 1903.

J. WEIL. .NEGKTIE FASTENER- LPILIOATION FILED JULY 22, 1902.

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JOSEPH WEIL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NECKTlE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,529, dated April 7,1903.

Application filed July 22, 1902.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WEIL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inNecktie-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to necktie-fasteners.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improvednecktie-fastener for holding a necktie-bow on a collar-button, and whichfastener is simple in construction, strong and durable, stifiens thebow-shield at the center, holds the bow securely on the collar-button,and which is so shaped as to prevent the clamping -jaws from passinginto the buttonhole when the bowis applied on the collar-button.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of referenceindicate like parts in all the figures, Figure l is a face view of theinner side of a shield provided with my improved necktie-fastener, partsof the shield being broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional View on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

The fastener is made of a single and continuous piece of spring-wire,which is bent to form the two substantial U-shaped jaws A A, each havingan outer shank a and a bent inner shank b, a spring-eye B open at thebottom being thus formed between the two bent inner shanks b, and whichspringeye serves to receive and hold the stem of the collar-button. Atthe top of the spring-eye B the two inner shanks b are united, as shownat C. At the upper end of each outer shank a the wire is curved to therear and bent downward to form the arm d, which is behind the shank aand rests upon the face of the shield, and at the .free end of the armd, which is at about half the height of the fastener, the wire is bentat right angles to form the laterally-extending arm f, also resting onthe face of the shield, and at the free end of the arm f the wire isdoubled on itself toward the shank a, and a greater or less distancefrom the shank a the wire is passed through an aperture E in the shieldD and doubled over or clenched on the opposite face of the Serial No.116,560. (No model.)

A are apt to pass into the buttonhole when applying the fastener on acollar-button, and to prevent this the lower free ends of the prongs Aare curved inward toward the face of the shield, as shown in thedrawings at g; The lower ends of the prongs are thus always guided overthe edges of the buttonhole and cannot catch on the same or pass intothe buttonhole.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A neckwear-fastener composed of a piece of wire bent to form armswhich are to rest against a shield, at the upper ends of which arms thewire is curved and bent downward to form. two substantially U -shapedjaws forming a separable spring-eye open at one end, the free end partsof said jaws being inclined toward the plane of the arms that are torest on the shield, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A neckwear-fastener composed of a sin= gle piece of wire bent to formtwo substam tially U -shaped jaws forming a separable spring-eye, openat one end, each jaw hav ing an inner and an outer shank and the innershanks of the two jaws being united at the closed end of the spring-eye,and the wire at the upper end of the outer shank of each jaw being bentdownward in a plane behind that of the jaw, then bent to extendlaterally in the same plane as the downwardly-extend= ing part and thenbent and returned on itself toward the jaw in the same plane with andadjacent to the lateral part, the free end of the wire being bentto forma clenching-arm, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this -17th day of July, 1902.

' JOSEPH WEIL. Witnesses:

ALFRED WEIL, OSCAR F. GUNZ.

